Vernacular Regeneration: Low-income Housing, Private Policing and Urban Transformation in inner-city Johannesburg...

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Aidan Mosselson (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Vernacular Regeneration

Low-income Housing, Private Policing and Urban Transformation in inner-city Johannesburg

Aidan Mosselson (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

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English

Routledge
13 September 2018

Urban communities; Urban economics; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning

Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the process of urban change and renewal.

The provision of social and affordable housing and the spread of private security are explored through the lenses of neoliberal urbanism, gentrification, the privatisation of public space and revanchist policing. This book interrogates these concepts and challenges their assumptions based on new qualitative and ethnographic evidence emerging out of Johannesburg. Dated concepts in Critical Urban Studies are re-evaluated and the book calls for an alternative, adaptable approach, focusing on how we develop a vocabulary and creative understanding of urban regeneration.

This book is an outstanding contribution to theoretical and comparative approaches to understanding cities and processes of urban change. It offers practical insights and experiences which will be of considerable use to practitioners, policy-makers and urban planning students.

By: Aidan Mosselson (University of the Witwatersrand South Africa)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9781138746947
ISBN 10: 1138746940
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 13 September 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Thinking with and through Johannesburg 2. An overburdened process: the competing agendas, imperatives and outcomes of inner-city regeneration 3. The contradictory praxis of regeneration 4. Urban management and security: private policing, atmospheres of control and everyday practices 5. Ambiguous experiences of regeneration: spatial capital, agency and living in-between 6. The space that regeneration makes: regulation, security and everyday life 7. Conclusion: towards a vernacular theorisation of urban change

Aidan Mosselson is currently a Newton International Fellow, based at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield. He completed his PhD in Social Geography at University College London in 2015 and was Associate Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He held a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Johannesburg and the Gauteng City-Region Observatory. In 2017, he was awarded an International Fellowship by the Urban Studies Foundation, which supported a stint as a Visiting Fellow at LSE Cities.